Transylvania Club of Sandersville, Ga. Georgia bi-centennial memorial plates, 1932-1966.

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Transylvania Club of Sandersville, Ga. Georgia bi-centennial memorial plates, 1932-1966.

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The collection consists of both film and manuscript items. It includes correspondence concerning the design, production, use and sale of Georgia's Historical Plates. These plates were made by Wedgwood and distributed by the Transylvania Club of Sandersville, Georgia. The correspondence covers the period from 1932-1966 and contains several letters from historian Lawton B. Evans. Also included are several newspaper clippings and a photocopy of a history of the plates.

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Transylvania Club (Sandersville, Ga.)

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The Transylvania Club of Sandersville was organized in 1908 with a membership of 18 unmarried ladies. At the Club's second meeting, it was voted that the Club establish a public library as its primary project. The library opened May 12, 1909 in the Masonic Building, which was located on the town square. It was housed there until 1921 when a fire destroyed the building and most of its contents. Undaunted, the members began anew, and in 1925 The Transylvania Club purchased the antebellum home and ...

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons

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Clare Leighton (1898-1989) earned early recognition as an innovative and original wood engraver in 1923, when her engravings were shown at the annual exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers. The same year, she moved to Bloomsbury, London, where she met the radical journalist Henry Brailsford (1873-1958), with whom she lived for many years. His Marxist politics likely encouraged Leighton's dedication to portraying working men and women in her engravings, but she also seems to hav...

Evans, Lawton B. (Lawton Bryan), 1862-1934

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